Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre
Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.
Placed on the
floor in pairs, teardrop shapes curled together or nested one within another, the gourds fall into a lineage of surrealist
sculpture that includes Henry Moore, Alberto
Giacometti and Isamu Noguchi.